Michael,
The method that I described will do what you need. Well, sorta! It will
even assign the permissions for you! This will work on WIN2000 and WINXP and
WINNT ( but it has been a really long time since I have messed with WINNT ).
I am not sure why you want/need the users 'home folder' to be hidden. I
knew that you were getting at that with the $ but was curious as to why.
Not really my place to ask but I am curious. I like to hide various shared
folders - especially ones that I do not necessarily want the 'curious' user
to see while browsing the network. I typically do this for the
'distribution point' that I use for deploying software via GPOs.
As to the WIN98 clients that you still have - I would really try to replace
them with WINXP or even WIN2000. I know that this is not an answer to your
question. Having WIN9x clients is a pain in the gizmo as this OS is really
a pain in the backside in a corporate environment. However, this does not
help you in your current situation.
For the WIN98 clients you might want to consider adding a section in your
logon script to take care of this. I believe that the /home switch will
help you.
HTH,
Cary
"Michael Kintner" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Do you know if a program that will take a whole directory and create share
> name for all the folder within that directory?
>
> Such as:
> c:\users\name1
> c:\users\name2
> c:\users\name3
>
> and have it create share name:
>
> name1$
> name2$
> name3$
>
> to each folder? So i could then use the \\servername\%username%$ and have
> it mapped to the H: Drive for that user. I have to setup this type of H
> drive because we still have 98 boxes and they do not support deep
mappings.
>
> Mike
>
> "Cary Shultz [A.D. MVP]" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> > Michael,
> >
> > First of all the format would need to be something like
> > \\servername\users\%username% where there is a shared folder called
> 'users'
> > on a server called 'servername' and each user would need a folder named
> > 'username' ( meaning, if Mary Smith has a user account called 'msmith'
> HER
> > folder would need to be called 'msmith' ). You would need to associate
a
> > Drive Letter with this so you would need to make sure to select one that
> is
> > not a part of your logon script. H: is what most people use - assuming
> that
> > you are trying to create a so-called 'user home folder'. Please
remember
> > that if these user folders do not exist in that shared folder they will
be
> > created. What are you trying to do with the "$" at the end?
> >
> > What is currently in each user's profile? Anything? How many users are
> > there? Does each user already have a folder set up? If yes, what is
the
> > name of each folder ( meaning, is there a scheme to it )? Again,
remember
> > that placing the \\servername\users\%username% in each users profile
will
> > create that 'msmith' folder if it does not already exist.
> >
> > What type of clients do you have ( meaning, all WIN2000 and above or do
> you
> > also have WIN9x clients )?
> >
> > Is this something that can be done with a logon script? I know that
this
> is
> > different from what you are asking, but I am not sure what you are
trying
> to
> > do ( have an idea,though ).
> >
> > HTH,
> >
> > Cary
> >
> >
> > "Michael Kintner" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> > news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> > > How can I automatically open the Users Profile and change globally the
> > users
> > > home path to \\servername\username%$. Or something like that.
> > >
> > > Anybody have any ideas? Thank you in advance for anything.
> > >
> > > Sorry for the multiple directory post but I did not know where to go?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Mike
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>
|
Similar Threads
